My organisation is trying to stop women dying in pregnancy & childbirth in SubSaharan Africa by supplying medications free of charge to prevent or treat common complications. To date we estimate around 13,000 women are alive (plus many thousands of babies) because of our support. So why are women dying at the rate of at least one per minute? It not because we don't have the means to save them, it is because society has judged them not to be worthy of saving! Another woman has died since I started typing this comment. Men decide whether his wife has a c/section. On one occasion in Chad, a woman was to have her 10th child. The husband was told that his wife should be sterilized following this delivery, because she will not survive another pregnancy. He refused because ONLY 3 of his children were boys!

Paris, France (CNN) -- France's lower house of parliament Tuesday overwhelmingly passed a ban on any veils that cover the face -- including the burqa, the full-body covering worn by some Muslim women.
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Photographs of women, mostly postcards from India, tempt a buyer. "These men haven't seen any photographs depicting the human female form since the arrival of the Taliban seven years ago," says Stanmeyer. "Selling such items is allowed again now, and women in Afghanistan are still wearing burkas, so there's this great demand for pictures of women in full view."